Amparo Acker-Palmer - Curriculum Vitae#

• W3 Professor/Department Chair Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Institute of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Biology Faculty, Goethe University Frankfurt (since 2011).
  
• Faculty member of the Focus Program Translational Neurosciences (FTN) of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (since 2012).
  
• Max Planck Fellow at the MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt (as of July, 2014).
  

Education:

• 1986 – 1991 Bachelor of Biology (Biochemistry), Valencia University
  
• 1992‐1996 PhDThesis: “Characterization of the proteasome in different subcellular locations.” Directed by Prof. Dr. Erwin, Knecht at the Instituto de Investigaciones Citológicas, Valencia,Spain (summa cum laude)
  
• 1992 /93/94 Visiting research scientist, Dept. of Biochemistry University of Leicester, UK
  

Employment:

• 1996 – 2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, Developmental Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany, Signal Transduction (Supervisor: Angel Nebreda) and Neurobiology (Supervisor: Ruediger Klein)
  
• 2001 – 2007 Group leader, Max-Planck-Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
  
• 2007 – 2011 W2 Professor, Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes (CEF) Goethe University Frankfurt
  
• 2010 Call W3 Professor-Director, Institute of Cellular Biophysics, Research Center Jülich GmbH, Helmholtz Society and the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. Declined
  
• since 2011W3 Professor and Department Chair Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Institute of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Biology Faculty, Goethe University Frankfurt
  
• since 2012 Faculty Research Focus Translational Neuroscience (FTN) Johannes Gutenberg- Universität Mainz
  
• since 2014 Research Group Neurovascular Link at the MPI for Brain Research

Awards:

• 1997 Ph.D. Extraordinary Award by Valencia University
  
• 2010 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstädter Prize for Young Investigators
  
• 2012 Gutenberg Forschungskolleg (GFK) Fellow
  
• 2012 German Academy of Science Leopoldina
  
• 2014 Max Planck Fellow
  

Member: German Academy of Science Leopoldina, Marie Curie Fellowship Association, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), German Neuroscience Society, German Society for Cell Biology, German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience Frankfurt, Rhine-Main-Neuroscience Network (rmn2), Interdisciplinary Center for Membrane Proteomics Frankfurt (CMP), Cluster of Excellence “Macromolecular Complexes” (CEF), Cluster of Excellence “Cardio-Pulmonary System” (ECCPS)